Causes Of Ringing In Ears
Causes Of Ringing In Ears
It seems unfair, now doesn’t it? After all medications — both prescription and over-the-counter — were made for the sole purpose of improving your health — certainly not making it worse. It turns out that they can really be the causes of ringing in ears.
Not only have some medications been implicated in worsening or causing of ringing in the ears, some are even the cause of the problem. But that’s only a small part of the tale. Many times ringing in the ears occurs when certain combinations of drugs are used together. This is just one more very excellent reason to ensure you provide your health-care practitioner with all the drugs you’re currently using — prescription as well as over-the-counter medications.
You may be surprised to learn that, according to a recent international tinnitus symposium, more than 100 drugs have been found to be associated with either ringing in the ears of some type of hearing loss.
Keep in mind, though, that these drugs only affected the hearing of a small fraction of those who took them. In some instances, individuals failed to follow the written instructions which accompanied the drugs, taking the medications in higher than recommended doses.
Tinnitus and Aspirin
Having said that, there are certain drugs which are notorious for the causes ringing in the ears. The first is aspirin. Yep, aspirin. Who have thought this relatively harmless painkiller could potentially affect your hearing.
Those affected with aspirin-related tinnitus say the sounds they hear are normally high pitched. But they also add aspirin is usually harmless unless taken in large doses. Not only that but these large quantities — usually several times the recommended dosage — need to be taken for an extended period of time before it affects you in terms of tinnitus.
On the flip side of this, I would be remiss if I failed to point out that in some instances, individuals who had complained of chronic and severe tinnitus learned that aspirin at least partially alleviated this problem.
